Sentences with phrase «much less carbon»

There is simply much less carbon to burn.

Each of those assessments attempts to account for all the greenhouse gases emitted during the production and installation of solar cells, as well as how much energy solar cells produce — and, therefore, how much less carbon is emitted when switching from fossil fuels.

Our continued destruction and degradation of natural habitat, driving extinction, means much less carbon storage and the loss of water from natural systems as well as our own.

While natural gas is much less carbon - intense than coal or oil, a burgeoning industry based on cheap shale gas easily could swamp those gains in the long run.

Stopping land degradation is critical in mitigating climate change: soil is the second largest carbon sink after the ocean, but degraded land stores much less carbon.

And the average Indian still emits much less carbon dioxide than people living in the US, Europe or even China:

That is, Mars's atmosphere in this era, a period of great bombardment, had much less carbon - 13 than it does today.

«These superdeep diamonds contained much less carbon - 13, which is most consistent with an origin in the organic component found in altered oceanic crust.»

But the aged drink had lost much of its fizz, containing much less carbon dioxide than modern champagne, likely because it had diffused out through the cork during its centuries under the sea.

The new study suggests that the impact may have released around three times as much sulfur and much less carbon dioxide compared with previous estimates from 20 years ago.

«So, even well - managed present - day forests store much less carbon than their natural counterparts in 1750, which explains the [net] lack of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere.»

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The concern, of course, is that Canadian goods with a carbon tax may become much less attractive from a price point perspective.

Although one could imagine all sorts of radical Blue Sky tax reforms — or much less radical ideas like a carbon tax or a value added tax — in the context of the current debate about how to make some alterations to the current tax system, I would suggest the following five elements in the spirit of 1986:

Bikes must remain compliant for 50,000 km (less for smaller bikes) Myth busting reality: Bikes release a much higher amount of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons than cars Catalytic converters can be fitted to motorcycles and routinely are Bikes over 7 years old will not be banned from entering town centres Measures Outside of Type Approval

The simulations suggested that the indirect effects of increased CO2 on net primary productivity (how much carbon dioxide vegetation takes in during photosynthesis minus how much carbon dioxide the plants release during respiration) are large and variable, ranging from less than 10 per cent to more than 100 per cent of the size of direct effects.

A crucial reason why the study of freshwater acidification has lagged until now is because determining how atmospheric carbon affects these ecosystems requires complex modeling, and is much less clear than that occurring in oceans, according to study author Linda Weiss, an aquatic ecologist at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.

The system also uses much less water than other types of carbon capture proposals, the company said.

This is partly due to the current atmosphere containing much less CO2 — approximately 400 ppm (parts per million)-- compared to before the PETM, where the concentration was about 1,000 ppm and partly because we emit carbon into the atmosphere at a much faster rate than during the PETM.

By looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this event.

The authors found that when trees are exposed to drought, not only are climate - stressed trees less likely to take in as much carbon, but when they die, they release large amounts of stored carbon into the atmosphere.

Even in the United States — where much has been made of the switch away from coal to less carbon - intensive gas — coal is making a comeback.

«The amount of carbon that you can sink into the Southern Ocean is much less than I expected.»

Although there is much less of it in the air, it is 33 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere and adding to greenhouse warming.

Because these other stabilization mechanisms are likely much less vulnerable to disturbance than anaerobic microsites, our research suggests that the impact of climate or land use change may release greater amounts of carbon from soils than we expected.»

«Human influence is so dominant now,» Baker asserts, «that whatever is going to go on in the tropics has much less to do with sea surface temperatures and the earth's orbital parameters and much more to do with deforestation, increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and global warming.»

Because there is no combustion, fuel cells run extremely cleanly: Their emissions are just water and carbon dioxide, and they produce less than half as much CO2 per kilowatt - hour as do traditional power plants.

We spewed so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and denuded so much of the planet's greenery that we succeeded in warming everything up to an even more chaotic and less predictable state.

It's also comparable to carbon fiber, but much less expensive.»

Analyses revealed that, compared with activated carbon, production of the hybrid material consumed less energy («embodied energy») while leaving a much lower carbon footprint.

Low emissions, much less zero emissions, are only true in certain places where most of the electricity comes from a mix of low - carbon sources such as the sun, wind or nuclear reactors.

Scientists measured how much carbon dioxide the artificially warmed plants respired — released into the air via their leaves — and learned that over time, the trees acclimated to warmer temperatures and increased their carbon emissions less than expected.

Eventually, Stars Aa and Ab will lose much of their current mass, from intensified stellar winds that eventually puff out their outer gas envelopes of hydrogen and helium (and lesser amounts of higher elements such as carbon and oxygen) into interstellar space as planetary nebulae.

The solvents can operate at much lower temperatures than those solvents considered for carbon - capture to date, making them less energy intensive and more cost effective.

In turn, a warmer atmosphere heated the oceans making them much less efficient storehouses of carbon dioxide and reinforcing global warming, possibly forestalling the onset of a new glacial age.

The general consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide and / or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the lesser amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

Instead of the original IMSA rear wing this orange Gallardo is showing a much higher riding, race inspired clear carbon rear wing that probably results in a lot more down force at speed... and this V10 sure goes fast... thanks to a Twin Turbo conversion by well - known Heffner Performance that has been further modified by ZR Auto to deliver no less than 1,500 hp in the end.

The high - strength carbon body of the Golf GTE Sport therefore weighs much less than a comparable steel body.

Speaking of contrasts, the sports coupe's mirror caps and, side skirts, rear spoiler and diffuser all now come in carbon fiber, as good a cosmetic dress up as you can get for a lot of premium cars, much less the M240i.

It should even be less expensive, as graphene's carbon is much easier to find than the exotic indium metal you see in conventional e-paper.

There is some really impressive realistic damage modelling including loss of tyres following a heavy impact with the barrier or a collision with another car, the front wing becoming detached which will affect the handling of your car until a pit stop has been made, aerodynamic carbon fibre bodywork flying through the air in a variety of directions after a lesser impact which is not race ending but could affect the behaviour of your car, engine blowouts following a mechanical failure or too much mileage on the same engine and more besides.

Unless we're missing something, the deals this week are pretty much a carbon copy of last week (with Walmart swapping places with TRU's deals in many cases), so in a lightly edited, but no less blatant, copy - paste: No gimmicks to get excited about this week.

Vigorous convective mixing in the deep tropics also dilutes changes in near - surface CO2 much more than at higher latitudes, so low - altitude sampling contains relatively less information about carbon sources and sinks.

Fertilizing the surface ocean with iron increases biological productivity, but the resulting carbon dioxide removal will be much less than expected due to the increased productivity of diatoms, which incorporate and remove the bioavailable iron.

I think it would be politically much easier to raise less funding for research than for massively expensive, hugely ineffective carbon cuts.

Second, the quantity of methane necessary to explain the carbon isotope ratio, as calculated by Dickens, would be much less than that required to warm ocean and atmosphere temperatures to the extent estimated by PETM temperature proxies and calculated by physical climate models.

This makes moving to a low carbon economy a much less costly option.

2) don't even attempt to address the mathematically indisputable (as far as I can see) fact that grassland sequestration can not come close to offsetting the current levels of carbon emissions, much less reduce the excess carbon already in the atmosphere (at least not while said emissions continue).

David, I havent been keeping up with all the PETM research, but I do recall that individual plankton recovered from Bass River, New Jersey show a single step CIE. Due to the high sedimentation rate of coastal fluvial systems, Bass River sediments are consistent with a much shorter duration of organic carbon release during the PETM (estimated as less than 500 years).

Americans will have to pay much higher electricity prices despite the minuscule benefits of the Clean Power Plan, which reduces global carbon dioxide emissions by less than 1 percent and global temperatures by 0.02 degrees Celsius by 2100, according to EPA's own models.

Natural gas is much more environmentally friendly than coal, which continues to be the mainstay of electricity production around the world and in the U.K. Gas emits less than half the CO2 per kilowatt hour produced, and it emits much lower amounts of other pollutants like nitrous oxide, sulfur dioxide, black carbon, carbon monoxide, mercury, and particulates.